This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

Discover the taste of mold.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.